Description

GRIMSBY

TA2310SW COOKS LANE, Great Coates
699-1/9/97 (West side)
The Manor House including former
stables and coach-house

GV II

House. Mid C18 with 1878 and C20 alterations and additions,
including remodelling of south front and widening of rear
wing. Probably for the Sutton estate. Red brick, stuccoed and
incised in imitation of ashlar to south and east fronts. Slate
roof. T-shaped in plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south
front with rear wing incorporating central corridor, dining
room and kitchen; adjoining stable and coach house range to
rear, now part of house.
EXTERIOR: south front of 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical.
Plinth, rusticated quoins. Stone to far left corner of plinth
inscribed "18 EJS 78". Steps to recessed tripartite entrance
with 6-panelled door, half-glazed panels and overlight, in
chamfered reveal beneath cambered wedge lintel with stepped
keystone. Ground-floor canted bay windows with central 2/2
sashes and flanking 1/1 sashes in chamfered segmental-headed
reveals, moulded wood cornices, flat roofs. 2/2 first-floor
sashes in flush wood architraves with sills beneath segmental
arches. Stepped eaves. Hipped roof. Banded side-wall stacks.
Right return: main range has quoins, irregular fenestration.
Four 6/6 ground-floor sashes, three 3/6 first-floor sashes,
all in flush wood architraves beneath segmental arches. Hipped
roof, single ridge stack.
Lower 2-storey stable and coach-house range set back to right:
board door beneath lintel, 2 horizontal sliding sashes with
glazing bars beneath segmental arches, double board door to
former coach house to far right. Signs of blocked openings to
first floor. Central T-plan ridge stack.
INTERIOR: good late C19 chimneypieces, one of carved grey
marble, another with an Adamesque carved wood surround,
another to rear with Art Nouveau relief design; open-well main
staircase with turned balusters; early C19 back staircase with
stick balusters and corniced handrail; early C18 ovolo-moulded
beam to kitchen, boxed-in spine beam to adjoining dining room.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.130;
Grimsby Planning Department: Great Coates Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.130).

Listing NGR: TA2347010248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659681

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Recommended Books

• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas